Monday, December 09, 2013
Judge grants temporary stay in Glorieta dispute
A federal judge issued a temporary stay in a lawsuit involving homeowners at Glorieta Conference Center after LifeWay Christian Resources sold the leased property on which their houses are located. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Hayes Scott issued the stay during
proceedings in the suit Kirk Tompkins of Little Rock, Ark., filed
against the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee and other
parties. Tompkins’ suit seeks to block the completion of LifeWay’s sale of the
New Mexico conference center to Glorieta 2.0, a group of investors
directed by Anthony Scott, executive director of Camp Eagle in Southwest Texas, and chaired by Houston homebuilder David Weekley. Tompkins’ suit
asserts LifeWay lacks authority to dispose of the conference center
without the approval of messengers at two consecutive annual meetings of
the Southern Baptist Convention annual. The lawsuit maintains the
original 1950 warranty deed grants the conference center property to the
SBC Executive Committee, and no other transfer of deed is on record. Tompkins’ suit claims LifeWay’s officers and directors failed in
their fiduciary duties by selling 2,400 acres in the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains near Santa Fe, N.M., for $1.
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An Open Letter to Southern Baptists
By Kirk Tompkins
Plaintiff in Lawsuit against Lifeway over the sale of Glorieta Conference Center
December 15, 2017
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
Recent legal events of September 2017 bring clear understanding about LifeWay’s disposal of Southern Baptist Convention’s New Mexico Glorieta Conference Center asset estimated at $150 million. “Missouri Baptist Convention” as plaintiffs’ settled a corporate civil lawsuit with a Court ORDER mandating the return “Windermere Baptist Conference Center”, part of assets valued at more than $250 million to Missouri Baptist Convention. Legal parallels between the Glorieta Conference Center and Windermere Baptist Conference Center lawsuits are extraordinary tantamount [equivalent in effect or value]. Missouri Judge DeMarce set a hearing for September 18, 2017 in the Windermere lawsuit costing $10 million in legal fees paid out of cooperative program money and raging since 2001. Nine days later on September 27, 2017, Judge DeMarce held that trustees’ had failed uniquely to operate under their corporate Charter and By-Laws. The Trustees’ blatantly ignored specific provisions of their charter/by-laws requiring messengers’ approval vote during the annual meeting of Missouri Baptist Convention. The Missouri case represents a national trend germane to all Corporations required to file “Constitutions, Charters and By-Laws” to their respective States. Therefore, the Judge’s 86-page Court “ORDER” became a guide for all future Corporate litigants (defendants) failing to abide by their Charter/By-Laws with punishment remedies specifically awarded in the Missouri Case voiding all matters since 2001 and returning “Windermere Baptist Conference Center” back to Missouri Baptist Convention.
Southern Baptists, the relevant facts you should be aware of is the knowledge that LifeWay Trustees’ failed corporate charter/bylaws requirement that Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting messengers’ were never given the opportunity to vote in approval of LifeWay’s trustees’ disposal of Glorieta Conference Center, nor did messengers’ vote on the sale of LifeWay’s Nashville corporate center! At this writing, a lawsuit challenging LifeWay’s sale of Nashville headquarters has not been filed, further rumors abound that Tompkins’ litigation has been terminated However, as Mark Twain wrote, “Reports of my death has been greatly exaggerated”, reports of Glorieta Conference Center lawsuit settlement are likewise greatly exaggerated. Glorieta Conference Center litigation remains active in Federal Court, District of New Mexico Civil Action No 1:17-cv-00460-LF-KRS.
Meanwhile a Santa Fe County, New Mexico public meeting scheduled for January 4, 2018 will present civil and criminal environmental violations at Glorieta Conference Center. This will be a major media event open to all citizens and press reporters, local and national.
Who has time for dispassionate analysis, for methodical research and a reading of the founding fathers SBC charter, bylaws, and constitution? Missouri Judge DeMarce found time in writing his 86-page opinion. Will a New Mexico Court come to a similar conclusion?
“Judge DeMarce’s decision is encouraging, clear, and conclusive,” said John Yeats, Missouri Baptist Convention executive director. “Churches, conventions, and ministries across the country will benefit from these rulings. In response to biblical principles, Missouri Baptists want to be faithful stewards of the ministries entrusted to us, which were grown with generations of Cooperative Program giving.”
Be encouraged to stand and deliver moral justice before the 2018 SBC annual meeting with appointments of independent and internal committees whose investigations should be assigned to independent discovery of facts about Glorieta!
Yours Faithfully,
Kirk Tompkins
http://www.truth-honor-justice.com/
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